On May 23 1910 a baby girl was born in Brooklyn New York That same day a comet streaked silver across the sky Halley’s comet arrived only every seventy five years or so The girl named Margaret Wise Brown slept as the star flecked tail arced overhead like a fireworks show
When Margaret was five her family moved to a house on Long Island Margaret hitched the neighbors dogs to her sled and raced over the snow Only Margaret would think of that her family said
Under hazy stars Margaret spun stories on the sleeping porch When she read fairy tales to her sister she changed the words sometimes scarier sometimes more magical like a genie spiraling from Aladdin’s lamp
